A survey carried out among all 3,800 employees of a UK logistics and distribution business revealed generally high levels of employee satisfaction, but also opportunities to improve the working lives of employees and the profitability of the company. Founded in 1925, Palmer and Harvey, of Hove, East Sussex, was placed second in a Management Today survey of the UK’s top 100 privately owned com…
The purpose of this paper is to describe how Swisslog Healthcare Solutions, which provides automated logistics solutions for hospitals and other health‐care organizations, has taught its sales force to talk about the operational benefits of its systems to individual hospitals or pharmacies rather than simply the technical features of a particular product.
The purpose of this paper is to observe how the Euro Car Parts (ECP) academy is helping the expanding business to recruit trained and willing employees.
Few industries can match aircraft manufacture and carriers for their volatility – there are so many external factors that can affect the bottom line. The last two years have seen a global economic downturn, the war in Iraq and threats of terrorism taking their toll. The SARS virus was another entirely unpredictable factor that has affected the industry adversely and which helps to account f…